So @PGChocolate are we meant to understand that Feeding will replace a minor event going forward, rather than a major?

When you said PG had decided to “change the event cadence back” we reasonably assumed that you meant “back to the way it was before the recent change.” Of course, then Feeding followed PvP, but we figured that was just a stopgap measure to make sure there were 4 weeks between Fortification events. But now, we will have to wait 5 weeks between Fortification events, and a minor event that everyone has been counting on to finish out whichever line they are on has been pushed to next season (presumably, I guess it’s possible there will be no more Fortification events, or next season won’t start right after this season, at this point I don’t feel confident assuming anything).

Like many other tactics and strategies, I believe this is not the way PG intended for you to play the game. You are meant to expend what you’ve been saving all season now and buy more at the beginning of next season, because

The problem is that we don’t know what the “cadence” is anymore. In the three weeks since this “reversion” occurred, no one has had any certainty regarding what TYPE of event will be next, and each event announcement has been a total surprise.

The resources needed for a fortification event are different from those for a PvP event (and I know you know this). The point was, if people were counting on the last event being fortification, they may not have saved PvP resources from the last PvP event. Or they may not have had a lot of PvP resources to begin with and they’re relying on their minor event performance to carry them through their lines.

People going into Temple Raid two weeks ago could look at the calendar and conclude that there would be, at least, that PvP event (Temple Raid) and then Fortification before the end of the season. Getting points in Fortification is easy, so they may have planned their end-of-season push around the sigils they’d be able to get during that Fort event - because they’ve got timers and embers (and if they’re lucky, Black Pearls), but…they don’t have PvP resources any more.

So not having Fort means they may not complete the lines they were working on. And yes, they can spend on sigil chests, but if the goal is to get the line without spending, and if they don’t have any extra rubies, they’re kind of SoL.